{"id":60877,"date":"2020-09-22T03:10:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T07:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=60877"},"modified":"2020-09-23T09:53:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T13:53:21","slug":"building-racecars-helps-student-discover-passion-for-project-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/09_22_2020\/building-racecars-helps-student-discover-passion-for-project-engineering","title":{"rendered":"Building Racecars Helps Student Discover Passion for Project Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hannah Haselhuhn is all about trying something new.<\/p>\n

It has been the hallmark of her time as a Rocket, and it\u2019s taken her down some interesting paths, including one that\u2019s led to a role as the team lead on UToledo\u2019s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers team.<\/p>\n

In that position, Haselhuhn, a mechanical engineering major and also a student in the Jesup Scott Honors College, directs the design and build process for a Formula-style race car. The team manufactures custom parts either in their machine shop or in the UToledo engineering labs, and in a typical year, they\u2019ll create up to 90% of the car\u2019s parts themselves.<\/p>\n

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Hannah Haselhuhn poses with members of UToledo\u2019s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers team. As the team lead, Haselhuhn, a mechanical engineering major, directs the design and build process for a Formula-style race car.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI absolutely love seeing the process from start to finish,\u201d Haselhuhn said. \u201cThat\u2019s a big part of the reason I think project engineering appeals to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haselhuhn hopes to put what she\u2019s learned about project engineering to work in the oil and gas industry. A junior, she\u2019s already completed one co-op with Marathon Petroleum in Findlay, and has another slated for the summer of 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t necessarily know what kind of industry I wanted to go into when I selected mechanical engineering, but now that I\u2019ve completed one co-op and I have experience in project engineering, I really, really liked it,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m hoping I will end up at Marathon after graduation.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Toledo native, Haselhuhn chose UToledo specifically for its engineering program, selecting it ahead of the University of Cincinnati, which had offered her the equivalent of UToledo\u2019s Presidential Scholarship. She chose to stay close to home in part because of the nearly limitless opportunities available at her hometown university. That includes the chance to do things she\u2019d never done before \u2014 like leading a team that designs and builds a race car. Even if that was part of the appeal, she\u2019s still a little amazed at just how far she\u2019s come.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really didn\u2019t have any idea what to expect, but it\u2019s been fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the team lead on UToledo\u2019s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers team, Hannah Haselhuhn, a mechanical engineering major, directs the design and build process for a Formula-style race car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6,36,71,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60933,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60877\/revisions\/60933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}